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cjmiller

Location: Oregon, Willamette Valley

Posted: Aug-09-2004 at 1:17pm

I know in August you are supposed to trim out all of the old canes that bore berries this year, but I want to move some of my plants to a better location. Can I do that now, or must I wait until it is miserable next Jan or Feb to move them?
Some of the new canes are growing 7 or 8 feet high, should I trim them back if I move them now, or go for the smaller plants? or do I have to wait until Jan?

Carol

gary

Location: Washington, Puget Sound Corridor

Posted: Aug-09-2004 at 6:21pm

Carol,

My recall says that you can trim the new canes now say 4-5 feet. I think you use a foot above your above your restraining wire height as a guide.

And yes I think you need to plant in that poor weather so you won't have to worry about dry soil. Those bare root plants we buy sure do not have much in the way of roots.

Gary

gary

Location: Washington, Puget Sound Corridor

Posted: Aug-15-2004 at 6:30am

Carol,

While looking for an irrigation article in my back issues of Kitchen Gardener Magazine, I found a raspberry article that Taunton has posted. It is by Darlene White, a lady that lives outside Victoria so the advice fits our weather. (She even uses the same organic fertilizer recipe.)

You can read it at:

Reliable Raspberries

Gary

cjmiller

Location: Oregon, Willamette Valley

Posted: Aug-15-2004 at 6:12pm

Gary, Thanks so much for the article from Kitchen Garden--I was smuggly sitting here saying, I kept all my issues of K.Garden and when I went to look -yup, they were there, only the last issue I have was # 30 and this article was from #31! So I was really grateful for the link. I have printed it out--7 pages worth--and it will go into my "Sustainable Gardening" notebook . The thing she suggested that should help greatly is a raised bed--we have had great luck with using regular cement block to make raised beds, It doesnt rot, and you can change the bed without too much work. I am thinking 4 ft wide and only 1 row of Raspberries, and I can get the prep work done now, so it will be ready for a nice? day in January!

Carol

gary

Location: Washington, Puget Sound Corridor

Posted: Aug-16-2004 at 11:52am

Carol,

I can really second whaty she says about the row spacing. I first put in raspberries and asparagus only three feet apart. And then I buitt my raised beds only 3 ft. west of the raspberries. Soon I had berry volunteers inside the raised beds.

The berries are gone now and replaced by another asparagus row which I will let grow into the fisrt row. The raspberries will go in this winter east of the asparagus. With my very sandy soil, I will not need to raise them up.

Gary

JeanneK

Location: Oregon, Greater Portland Metro

Posted: Aug-16-2004 at 1:20pm

Thanks for a great link, Gary. Very helpful! I am giving some raspberrries to a friend and was planning on digging them up in February but wasn't sure if September/October would be better. Looks like February it is!

Jeanne

gary

Location: Washington, Puget Sound Corridor

Posted: Aug-21-2004 at 5:25am

Carol,

I found another recent & local raspberry article this morning on the King TV website.